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Family do not believe suicide verdict

THE family of a woman who was found dead in a Burford stream have refused to accept a coroner’s verdict of suicide.

Wendy Leckenby, of Meadow End, Fullbrook, was found in the Mill Stream, near Church Lane, at 9.35am on August 3.

An inquest at Oxford’s County Hall heard that police officers found a white paper bag containing what they believed to be a suicide note and “several empty packets of drugs” along with Mrs Leckenby’s wallet on a bench by St John the Baptist Church.

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When her family challenged the verdict at the inquest on Tuesday, Oxfordshire coroner Darren Salter replied: “It seems quite apparent in the evidence at least that there was an intent as expressed in the note.”